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I'll read one more, which
I like to call "Slaughtered

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from the Infantry."

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It's not exactly a
portrait of one man.

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It's a composite portrait
of three or four guys

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I knew who had really been in
the infantry in World War II.

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It's called "Portrait
from the Infantry."

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He smelled bad and was red-eyed
with the miseries of being

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scared while sleepless
when he said this--

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"I want a private woman, peace
and quiet, and some green stuff

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in my pocket.

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Fuck the rest."

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Pity the underwear
and socks, long burnt,

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of an accomplished
murderer, oh God,

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of Germans and replacement, who
refused three stripes to keep

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his B.A.R., who fought, fought,
not to fight some days like any

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good small businessman of
war, and dug more holes than

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an outside dog to modify
some Freudian's thesis--

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"No man can stand three
hundred days of fear

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of mutilation and death."

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What he theorized was a joke--

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"To keep a tight asshole,
dry socks, and a you-deep

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hole with you at all times."

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Afterwards, met in a sports
shirt with a round wife,

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he was the clean slave of
a daughter, a power brake

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and beer.

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To me, he seemed diminished in
his dream, or else enlarged,

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who knows?, by its
accomplishment--

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personal life wrung from
mass issues in a bloody time

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and lived out hiddenly.

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Aside from sound baseball talk,
his only interesting remark

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was, in pointing to his
wife's belly, "If he comes out

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left foot first"--

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the way you Forward March!--

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"I am going to
stuff him back up."

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Isn't he awful?"

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she said.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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